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Author Gaspar de Alba, Alicia, 1958- author.

Title [Un]framing the "bad woman" : Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and other rebels with a cause / Alicia Gaspar de Alba.

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.
©2014

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (xxv, 364 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary One of America's leading interpreters of the Chicana experience dismantles the discourses that "frame" women who rebel against patriarchal strictures as "bad women" and offers empowering models of struggle, resistance, and rebirth.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: activist scholarship and the historical vortex of the "bad woman" -- The politics of location of la decima musa: prelude to an Interview -- Malinche's revenge -- There's no place like Aztlan: homeland myths and embodied aesthetics -- Coyolxauhqui and las "maqui-locas": re-membering the sacrificed daughters of Ciudad Juarez -- Mapping the labyrinth: the anti-detective novel and the mysterious missing brother -- Devil in a rose bikini: the inquisition continues -- The Sor Juana chronicles.
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Subject Hispanic American women -- History.
Hispanic American women.
History.
Mexicans -- History.
Mexicans.
Women -- Identity.
Women -- Conduct of life.
Women -- Identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Women -- Conduct of life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Gaspar de Alba, Alicia, 1958- [Un]framing the "bad woman". First edition 9780292757615 (DLC) 2013038465 (OCoLC)861335285
ISBN 9780292757622 (electronic book)
029275762X (electronic book)
9780292757615 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0292757611 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780292758506 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0292758502 (paperback ; alkaline paper)